Abaqus on ENG-Grid
Abaqus is available through a floating license. It’s own by College of Engineering and is installed on the ENG-Grid and also the SCC.
Running
To launch the default Abaqus, just call abaqus. For more control you can call the abaqus executable directly; that launch script really just calls this:
/ad/eng/opt/64/abaqus/6.8-4/exec/abq684.exe cae -mesa
Batch use with threads
Abaqus compute jobs can be run across multiple cores on a system in threaded mode. First have a look at the info about the threaded environment, then try a batch job using mp_mode=threads. Note that most systems on the grid have fewer than 8 cores available.
#$ -S /bin/sh
#$ -cwd
#$ -pe threaded 6
/ad/eng/bin/64/abaqus input={input} ... cpus=$NSLOTS mp_mode=threads
Batch use with MPI
Abaqus compute jobs can be run in parallel across systems using MPI. First make sure the basic MPI examples run, then try an Abaqus job using mp_mode=mpi.
#$ -S /bin/sh
#$ -cwd
#$ -pe openmpi 16
/ad/eng/bin/64/abaqus input={input} ... cpus=$NSLOTS mp_mode=mpi